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Every career oriented man tends to become a workaholic at some point in his life. This is my story, and I hope you will read it carefully. I got married to Stacy when I was 27, and my career as a financial planner was already in full swing. With the added responsibility of a wife to care for, I worked even harder to make sure she could have the home of her dreams, not to mention clothes shopping, and the hope of a family someday. I am the type of man who has always believed that once a woman has children, she should have the choice to be the one to raise them.
Two years after we were married came our first child, a beautiful daughter, Sophia. She was everything I couldn’t even imagine, and I have always cherished her. As a workaholic, of course I worked even harder to make the luxury of staying home available to my wife Jennifer, all the while keeping up our pace of lifestyle. It was beginning to get harder and harder to keep up, but I continued at it. Then when the economy tanked in 2008, things got bad. I didn’t want to face my wife and daughter to let them know what was happening, so I would often go out drinking after work with my friends.
A workaholic doesn’t understand the driving force behind his motives. However, after awhile, my wife sat me down and had a conversation with me. You see, she learned about my job suffering, and about the time out at the bars, and she said that unless major changes started to happen in our family, that she was considering divorce. She said she felt like a single mother! I couldn’t believe how ungrateful she was acting at first, until I took some time to think it over objectively.
Next thing I did was to take some time and get some therapy and counseling appointments so I could understand the root cause of my problems. As it turns out, I was trying to make up for the poor lifestyle that I experienced growing up by being a workaholic. Now, I understand what my father did. I understand that playing board games, taking walks, going to the community park, and doing picnics together is far more valuable than shopping money to my family, and we all enjoy a great time together regularly. I have realized that in the end, what will remain are great memories of quality time spent together, and not how much money you made. Contact me if you need any advice, and enjoy your family!
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